Hi,

We're currently running TDP for Domino v1.1.2 on a W2K machine containing 3
Domino Partitioned Servers containing a total of about 200Gb of
Notes databases.

We run hourly transaction log archives (with an archive threshold of 70%),
nightly incremental backups and weekly full backups and log inactivation.

We recently had an incident where the incremental backup ran far longer that
normal, and as a consequence the hourly transaction log archives
that were scheduled were missed for several hours.  In the end, the W2K
machine ran out of disk space for TLs and Domino couldn't reuse any as they
hadn't been archived. We had to cancel the backup and run an archive to free
up space.

We have made changes to our schedule to ensure that a TL archive (without
any thresholds) is run prior to any incremental/full backup - hopefully
this should minimise the chances of this occurring again.

I was just wondering if anyone out there is using a different strategy to
address this potential problem?

We did think of configuring 2 TDP schedulers on the box (1 purely for TL
archives and the other to do the incremental/full backups), allowing the
archiving to take place even when a backup is running.  We're not sure if
this would work or not - has anyone else investigated/implemented this
strategy?

TIA.

Cheers,

_______________________________________

Chris Love
Enterprise Systems Analyst
Unisys West
ph: 08 9428 2745  mobile: 040 541 8979

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